We are looking forward to being newbies: to not knowing, to being acceptably ignorant and naiive.  How refreshing is that?  That means we get to “not get it” and to ask question after question:  Why?  How?  Where? and definitely…Can someone point us in the right direction?” (Now there’s a life question for all times!)  In this case, we just want to know where North is!  We are ok with feeling lost, scared, excited, overwhelmed, joyous, stressed, exhausted, breathless AND blissful!  It’s called being alive!  We have both had times in life of feeling dead inside from life events, and this e-ride sure beats that!

From time to time we need to be a little off-balance.  It keeps us on our toes, it keeps us looking for what we want, and it definitely keeps us moving.  Remember as a kid being on a teeter-totter? Exhilarating when you were at the top, when you hit bottom, thud, you just wanted to be up again, but when you were sort of sitting there in the middle not moving, legs dangling, it wasn’t much fun.  Life is like that, not that we always want extreme ups and downs, goodness knows life delivers enough of those without our orchestrating them, but we want, no we need, to be moving. In fact, these days when pretty well nothing feels like a sure thing we have come to believe that risk-taking is the new balance.  Sometimes it means putting all that is familiar and known on the line in order to arrive in a new place. 

We have both done the BIG LIFE REDESIGN a few times before.  Someone asked me the other day if this was the biggest life change I’d made.  At first I thought so, but then I remembered some of the others that, looking back, now seem pretty bold.  I left school at 16, that was pretty risky, but not half as risky as remaining and becoming a teenage statistic of depression.  After working for many years both Dr. B and I quit work and went to university. That was a huge risk.  Our, unlikely in some peoples’ views, goal was to obtain PhDs, 16 years later we had done just that!  Starting a non-profit organization to get good treatment for eating disorders in the early 80s was a big leap of faith when neither of us knew anything about running an organization, but we were still going strong 10 years later having helped thousands!  Choosing private practice for our entire career was impossible if we had listened to the many nay-sayers.  Well, 30 years later we are still here.  AND, if we hadn’t been willing to risk more we wouldn’t have given up our office, taken our practice virtual, and therefore global, which ultimately is allowing us to move to another country and take our business with us. 

Risky, you bet, but the payoffs?  Massive!  If there is one thing we know for sure, the risk of unhappiness, of living a life unfulfilled is always far greater than the risk of change.  So as we sign off this month from this side of the Atlantic, (we will “meet up” with you again in August, the techie-gods willing!) we just want to share a brand new acquisition with you done for us by an amazing client and artist/philosopher Nola Semczyszyn.  Taken from the lyrics of a song by George Michael, ‘Round Here, these words perfectly encapsulate our philosophy of living that we will keep sharing with you in the future.